Category Archives: World
Eclipse concerns cause school district to cancel classes
JEFFERSON, Ohio - A school district in Ohio has cancelled classes on Monday over concerns about students damaging their eyes while looking at the solar eclipse. The superintendent of Jefferson Area Lo...
Aug 18, 2017
Grand Teton park to escape Yellowstone's shadow for eclipse
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Its jagged, soaring peaks rise high over northwest Wyoming, but Grand Teton National Park is always in the shadow of its world-renowned neighbour, Yellowstone National Park. But thank...
Aug 18, 2017
Oldest American celebrates 114th birthday in Pennsylvania
HUNTINGDON, Pa. - The oldest known living person in the United States is celebrating her 114th birthday in Pennsylvania. The state Aging Department says Delphine Gibson hit the milestone Thursday, get...
Aug 18, 2017
'Spectacular' autumn foliage is forecast for New England
BOSTON - New England’s fall foliage forecast is looking so fine it’s enough to make a maple leaf blush. For the first time in several years, little has conspired against a truly glorious a...
Aug 18, 2017
Math experts join brainpower to help address gerrymandering
MEDFORD, Mass. - Some of the brightest minds in math arrived at Tufts University last week to tackle an issue lawyers and political scientists have been struggling with for decades. They came from col...
Aug 18, 2017
Confederate monuments removed or vandalized across the US
Confederate monuments are being removed around the country under pressure from those who say they honour a regime that enslaved African-Americans. The pace has increased, however, in the wake of last ...
Aug 18, 2017
Maryland removes Dred Scott ruling author's statue
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A statue of the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to African Americans was removed from the grounds of the M...
Aug 18, 2017
AP Explains: Why does a WWI general merit a Trump tweet?
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is being criticized once again for lauding the alleged tactics of Gen. John Pershing in dealing with Islamic extremists in the Philippines at the turn of the last c...
Aug 18, 2017
Finnish police shoot man who stabs 8 people in Turku; 2 dead
HELSINKI - A man stabbed eight people Friday in Finland’s western city of Turku, killing two of them, before police shot him in the thigh and detained him, police said. Authorities were looking ...
Aug 18, 2017
Fox's James Murdoch slams Trump's Charlottesville response
NEW YORK - The CEO of 21st Century Fox denounced racism and terrorists while expressing concern over President Donald Trump’s reaction to the deadly violence surrounding a white nationalist rall...
Aug 18, 2017